In addition to announcing the Xeon 6500P and Xeon 6700P processors along with the Xeon 6 SoC (Granite Rapids D), the Xeon 6300 series are also making a quiet debut today. The Xeon 6300 series is in effect the continuation of the Xeon E series but with little change over the existing Xeon E-2400 processors…
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[$] AlmaLinux considers EPEL 10 rebuild for older hardware
The AlmaLinux project has published
a request for comments (RFC) on rebuilding Fedora’s Extra Packages for
Enterprise Linux (EPEL), which provides additional software for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its derivatives, to support older
x86_64 hardware that is not supported by EPEL 10. While this may
sound simple on the surface, the proposed rebuild carries a few
potential risks that the AlmaLinux and EPEL contributors would like to
avoid. The AlmaLinux
Engineering Steering Committee (ALESCo) is currently considering
feedback and will vote on the RFC in March.
How to Install ntopng on Debian 12
Ntopng is an open-source network traffic monitoring tool for traffic analysis and real-time visualization. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to install the Ntopng Network Monitoring Tool on the Debian 12 server.
Emacs 30.1 released
The Emacs extensible text
editor (among other things) has made a security release to address two
vulnerabilities. Emacs 30.1 has fixes for CVE-2025-1244,
which is a shell-command-injection flaw in the man.el man page browser and
for CVE-2024-53920,
which is a code-execution vulnerability in the flymake
syntax-checking mode. LWN covered the
flymake problems back in December.
editor (among other things) has made a security release to address two
vulnerabilities. Emacs 30.1 has fixes for CVE-2025-1244,
which is a shell-command-injection flaw in the man.el man page browser and
for CVE-2024-53920,
which is a code-execution vulnerability in the flymake
syntax-checking mode. LWN covered the
flymake problems back in December.
Intel Preps New Performance Optimizations & Features For Linux 6.15 Graphics Driver
In addition to AMD beginning to queue graphics driver improvements for Linux 6.15, Intel open-source engineers are doing the same and this morning sent out their initial feature pull request to DRM-Next of the i915/Xe kernel graphics/display driver improvements they have been working on for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel…
MCTP-Over-USB Driver Slated For Linux 6.15
A new driver planned to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle is an implementation of MCTP over USB as defined by the DMTF standard DSP0283…
11 Best Free and Open Source CSS Front-End Frameworks
This article recommends the finest free and open source software that lets you dive into responsive design using CSS.
Years In The Making, Intel Timed I/O “TIO” Looks To Finally Land In Linux 6.15
Intel Timed I/O “TIO” has been present on Intel processors going back to 2019 and the Linux driver support has been worked on for several years, but finally this year with the upcoming Linux 6.15 cycle is this Intel Timed I/O code expected to be merged…
Linux’s libinput Input Library Finally Supports 3-Finger Dragging
Libinput as the open-source input handling library used by the modern Linux desktop both by Wayland compositors and the X.Org Server now has support for three-finger dragging…
Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Now Enables VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64
The newest feature merged this weekend to Intel’s open-source “ANV” Vulkan driver for Linux systems is support for the VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64 extension…
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 23rd, 2025
The 228th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on February 23rd, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.
PhotoPrism AI-Powered Photos App Released Its First 2025 Update
The first PhotoPrism update for 2025 brings a sleek UI, hybrid photo-video viewer, and 3D Earth view for Places—plus some usability and performance enhancements.
KiCad 9.0 Released For Advancing Open-Source EDA
KiCad 9.0 is now available as the newest version of this leading open-source Electronics Design Automation (EDA) suite that can rival some proprietary solutions for designing PCBs and other electronic hardware…
Raspberry Pi-Like Board Incorporates RK3568 CPU, GbE Port, and M.2 2242 Slot
Graperain’s RK3568 single board computer is a compact platform for embedded applications, powered by a quad-core Cortex-A55 CPU at 2.0GHz. It supports Android 11, Linux, Ubuntu, and Debian, features an ARM G52 2EE GPU for 4K video decoding, and offers versatile connectivity for industrial, consumer, and commercial use.
7 Best Free and Open Source Linux CLI File Encryption Tools
This roundup explores the finest CLI-based file encryption tools. All free and open source goodness.
Lutris 0.5.19 Brings Better Proton Handling
Lutris 0.5.19 open-source game manager for Linux improves Proton integration, refines DXVK handling, enhances Esync & Fsync settings, and more.
Linux 6.14-rc4 Released: The Right Kind Of “Boring”
Linus Torvalds released the Linux 6.14-rc4 kernel a short time ago as this half-way point to Linux 6.14 stable that should be out before the end of March…
Gentoo Makes QEMU Cloud Deployment Easier
Gentoo announced new cloud-ready images in QCOW2 format, offering weekly updates, password-less root, and easy KVM acceleration.
Kernel prepatch 6.14-rc4
The 6.14-rc4 kernel prepatch is out for
testing. “
testing. “
This continues to be the right kind of ‘boring’ release:“.
nothing in particular stands out in rc4
15 Best Free and Open Source Web Project Management Software
Project management is the application of processes, methods, knowledge, skills and experience to achieve the project objectives. We pick the finest free and open source web project management software.